Now that another Halloween is behind us, I’ll share something one of our area dental offices has done this year. They offered to buy back candy from youngsters at $1 a pound. Although people have joked that trick or treating was created by the dental profession to drum up business, these local dentists are weighing and paying in an effort to fight childhood obesity and tooth decay. After rewarding the participants with cash money, the office will then donate the candy to soldiers overseas to remind them of home. And of course to brush and floss. Nice effort.
Did anyone else hear that you can now buy coffins at Walmart? I heard it on the radio while making breakfast this morning. When Husband walked into the kitchen I asked him if he knew anything about buying caskets at Supercenters, and he asked if you could get them individually or did you have to buy the family four-pack. Or is it buy three and get one free. Or order within the next ten minutes and they’ll double your order and you pay only shipping and handling. I could go on, but it’s too easy.
Another story in the news involved the sale of an area house that had been the site of a notorious murder twenty years ago. Most of the block’s original residents are still living there, including the family of the murder victim. So you’d imagine the situation would call for the utmost sensitivity on the part of the new homeowner. According to the article I read, when asked how she felt about her new home’s history, the woman who bought it from the killer’s family said, “I don’t care what happened. It happened twenty years ago, not yesterday.” I’m sure that attitude will go a long way toward joyous future block parties.
And finally, in the Love Your Abuser category, we have the ongoing saga of the New York State senator charged with slashing his girlfriend’s face with broken glass. Despite the fact that the incident was captured on security video, the girlfriend is now begging to have the order of protection lifted so they can resume their intimate relationship. Apparently it was all just a misunderstanding. Would that be like the misunderstanding this senator put the whole state through by senselessly disrupting legislative sessions on the taxpayers’ dime? And now the senate has voted to let him retain his seat in our state government. Forget the public’s order of protection and wasted money. Just put it on our PayPal.
Halloween lingers in Daughter’s Featured Fotos
hallow’s eve in the subway
heeere’s jack
wicked
the amazing grovers
Last scare: Go on Walmart’s site and enter casket in the search box. BOO!